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A New Hampshire woman who became stuck in her swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to the loving arms of Facebook to ask for help getting out. "I had one foot on (the ladder), and when I put my other foot on it, it went down. And I cracked my knee," Leslie Kahn tells WBZ-TV of the Aug. 11 incident. The 61-year-old says she didn't have the upper-body strength to hoist herself out, and "my tenants were out, nobody was home. My phone was inside."

With few other options, Kahn used a pool pole to drag the chair her iPad was on toward her and posted in a community Facebook page, asking for help. She said she labeled the post "911" to get people's attention. A woman who lived nearby showed up, followed by police and a neighbor. "Every idea we thought of didn’t work," she says, until her rescuers thought to try a step ladder. "And I just climbed out. Happily ever after at that point." Kahn, whom the AP notes is a breast cancer survivor, is apparently no worse for the wear: "People keep saying, 'I bet you can laugh about it now.' I was laughing about it then. What else can you do!"

I've done that lift a few times. I wonder if she was unwilling to go under water. So you have the heavy victim in a typical home pool with no steps and a broken ladder or unconscious victim. You need to get them out and a step ladder is ludicrous. Now if they are already unconscious, it's a breeze. You face them away from the wall, cross their arms, then you fully submerge them. A fat lady will have significant bouyancy so all your lift energy is put into use. You are no longer trying to lift a 240lb women, its now more like 100. You then pull real hard but not hard enough to separate a shoulder. You get significant momentum as the lard lady shoots out of the water and as you pull her over the edge, you flip her on her face because her arms were flipped. She lands on her tubby stomach. Now if they are conscious, they have to hold their breath the whole time.

jansav

Aug 20, 2017 12:21 PM CDT

hmm the picture included is a ground level pool with stairs....

Lazarus

Aug 20, 2017 10:14 AM CDT

I don't know this woman's life story. But, she's only 61. The only positive thing I see here is her attitude. She didn't just wait and do nothing, she used her brain. Perhaps she will use this experience as motivation to loose a little weight. In most crisis situations attitude is everything.